Already calling his shots!

Cole is already calling his homeruns on his new teeball set. Future
slugger?

Like father like son. Dumbo ride rides again!

We're at the Jersey Shore right now, down at the boardwalk where Jess
used to play and then work. The first ride that Cole wanted to ride is
pictured here!

Pedal power!

After having two tricycles for a year or more, Cole can finally pedal them all over the place by himself!  He's been riding them for a couple of months learning how to pedal... could get them going if he was on a downhill slope.  Now he can kick start them on his own, and get them moving uphill or downhill, riding them all around the little neighborhood.

Twins!!

Cole & Kira are going to have some new cousins this Christmas (or soon thereafter)! Last weekend at the family BBQ Aunt Michelle announced that she is pregnant - with twins!!! Uncle Nick's girlfriend Angie looked terrified. She kept asking "So do twins run in your family???" I think she and Uncle Nick are going to get engaged soon - maybe next year - if the twins don't scare that poor girl away :-)

A few steps!

Last Thursday Kira took two steps! Dave stood her up and let go and she stood on her own for the first time. Then she started clapping. Of course, I couldn't find the video camera anywhere. Then she took two steps before sitting down! I rushed around, found the camera, and she just laughed when I tried to tape her. Since then she has stood here and there and taken one step but not two again. She is getting better and better at walking when holding my fingers though - now she'll do it with just one hand. Any day now...!

Day 10!

Well, I'd been trying to figure out a way to potty train Cole and my goal was to get him trained before he turns three. Sometimes the best things are unplanned...we were at my parents' house for a BBQ and the kids were playing with a water toy. So Cole had on his bathing suit with no diaper all day and we kept telling him to let us know if he had to use the toilet. He did GREAT the entire day and so the next day we thought we'd just try again. We put underwear on him and for the second day in a row he had no accidents! On Tuesday my parents came and brought him dinosaur underwear, which inspired him even more. And so now we are on day 10 of underwear! We have had only two accidents - one of them my fault. So really only one. The only complication is that Cole is not yet comfortable pooping on the toilet so he's been a little constipated (which is VERY unusual for my regular boy). We have been feeding him raisins and juice - but he says "I have to poop" and so we rush to the toilet and he sits down and then he says "aw...the toilet made my poop nervous." Don't ask me where he got that from! I can't count how many times a day we rush to the bathroom to try and poop...but at least he's trying! Dave bought him his own potty that should be arriving in the mail soon so we'll see if that helps the poop be less nervous :-)

Where's Cole?

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Mouthful of teeth

Kira got two more teeth this past weekend, the teeth on either side of
her two front top teeth. This brings her to a total of 8 teeth - 4 on
top, 4 on bottom. Here's how they all came in... Two middle bottom,
her bottom right, two top middle, her bottom left, two top on either
side of the middle. You can't really see them in this pic, but I tried!